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Encumbrance in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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 written Tuesday, March 29 2005 15:48 Profile Homepage #6
Actually, it takes two points in Defence to decrease your encumbrance by 5%.

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The Universe in General
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 written Tuesday, March 29 2005 05:46 Profile Homepage #76
Frankly, it's quite surprising that photons manage to avoid fouling up the laws of physics as artfully as they do. They have momentum, which is about as close to having mass as you can get without actually having mass.

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Help - Basshikava in Blades of Avernum
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 written Tuesday, March 29 2005 05:39 Profile Homepage #27
You're supposed to. An earlier version had a bug.

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How did you got your username? in General
Thuryl
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 22:13 Profile Homepage #32
I believe it's usually a derivative of "Emily".

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SR useless items in Blades of Avernum
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 20:23 Profile Homepage #4
Ah. Well, okay, so it's junk. Sorry. :P

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Encumbrance in Blades of Avernum
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 19:41 Profile Homepage #4
Putting skill points into Defence decreases your effective encumbrance.

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SR useless items in Blades of Avernum
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 18:11 Profile Homepage #1
Apple Pie is food. It helps you when you need to rest. Soporific Herbs aren't useful; they're just to trip up people who use unidentified items.

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Encumbrance in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 18:10 Profile Homepage #1
It means it encumbers you.

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What would you like to see developed after Geneforge 3 and Avernum 4? in General
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 16:21 Profile Homepage #10
Jeff's never actually made anything other than RPGs. All those puzzle and strategy games were made by other people and published by Jeff.

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On The Possibility of Objective Morality in General
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 15:56 Profile Homepage #49
Well, alright then. Personally, I disapprove of a lot of the things the Nazis did, such as the attempted genocide. (Let's keep in mind that that was certainly not the only side of the personality of each and every one of them; they were, after all, people, who did lots of nice or perfectly ordinary things as well; the whole approving-of-genocide thing was probably a fairly small part of the overall lives of most of them. You can look past differences and still be friends with people who support abortion, even though you strongly disapprove of it; if I lived in Nazi-era Germany, and a friend of mine were a Nazi while I wasn't, there's no reason to assume I wouldn't be able to look past that too. Although frankly, if I'd been raised in Nazi-era Germany, I'd probably be all for genocide.)

But I'm hardly objective.

[ Monday, March 28, 2005 16:00: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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On The Possibility of Objective Morality in General
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 15:35 Profile Homepage #47
In a social context, what I believe is irrelevant because I am irrelevant. And since society has far more effect on the shape of my life than I ever will, that means my own beliefs are irrelevant to the course of my life.

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Why would you be more annoyed at the second one by the way? While I would certainly be more annoyed overall, I wouldn't be more annoyed at one more than the other.
I can't hazard a guess as to why, but from experience I would be. I don't spend much time in shopping queues, but cars cut in front of me all the time when I drive, which is a closely analogous situation. On any given trip, the first couple of cars don't bother me, but the later ones infuriate me.

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On The Possibility of Objective Morality in General
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 15:30 Profile Homepage #45
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Originally written by The Creator:

But let me ask you, do you really think your morals are no better than those of the Nazis? Do you in fact think that if the Nazis had conquered the world there would be nothing wrong with that?
The answer to that question is of no importance. The question of which of two opposing forces I happen to approve of is utterly and hopelessly irrelevant to which one actually succeeds. If there is a "worst", and the worst happens despite our best efforts, what more can be said? What consolation is there to be found in saying that even in failure we were doing right?

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Or to approach it from another angle, do you only get upset about things because they are inconvenient? Let's say you are waiting in line with five people ahead of you, and then someone else pushes in ahead. Are you annoyed at him because he is inconvenient? The other five were also inconvenient. Are you just as annoyed at them?
If two people, unbeknownst to each other, pushed in front of me in a line some time apart, I'd be much more annoyed at the second than the first. Both did the same thing and caused me just as much inconvenience. I'd say that's pretty compelling evidence that my annoyance, regardless of the exact details of what caused it, has more to do with me than with them.

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Edit: What use are morals? Well, they won't give you any kind of power, but they help you to know how to react. But really, what has use got to do with it? We were arguing about whether they exist.
If something is of no consequence, what does it even mean to say it exists? If everything can be explained without the addition of another factor, why postulate it -- why not call your Moral Law simply a Law and be done with it?

As for morals helping one "know how to react", the way I see it, people end up reacting somehow anyway, whether they attribute their actions to morality or not.

[ Monday, March 28, 2005 15:34: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Beta Call for The Darkness in Blades of Avernum
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 15:06 Profile Homepage #43
Um, they're items. To assign them to the character with highest first aid, just give them to him. :P

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On The Possibility of Objective Morality in General
Thuryl
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 14:59 Profile Homepage #42
I think the example of Nazi Germany is an apt one indeed; millions of people, all supporting a campaign of mass murder. In the face of something like that, to cling to ideas of right and wrong as if they constitute some sort of protection against such social forces seems almost laughable. After all, in the end the fascists weren't berated into submission with well-crafted moral arguments, they were overcome by another group who happened to have more power than they did.

Am I saying the Nazis couldn't be blamed for what they did? No; even that would be a judgement of them, and a judgement has little effect unless someone's able and willing to back it up. I'm saying you could have chosen to blame them or not blame them, but it wouldn't have made much difference either way.

In the end, I guess this is what I'm asking: what's the use of calling something right or wrong? What does it let you do that you otherwise couldn't?

[ Monday, March 28, 2005 15:04: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Geneforge 3 available for Macintosh in Geneforge Series
Thuryl
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 14:46 Profile Homepage #13
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Originally written by -:

Geneforge used to be my favorite out of the spiderweb games. Jeff's lost the concept. He thinks that making more of a hit game will be good. I don't concur.While some of you may like that idea, I'm finding Jeff's games getting boring.

Let's see, in over 10 years how many different game types have there been?
-Nethergate
-Exile/Avernum (same plot)
-Geneforge

One word : BORING
Do you have Blades of Exile or Blades of Avernum? If not, you should definitely take a look at them -- the design community's done some very interesting things with each of them.

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On The Possibility of Objective Morality in General
Thuryl
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 14:39 Profile Homepage #39
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Originally written by The Creator:

Going back to the issue of whether the Moral Law exists... Thuryl, judging by your other posts in the abortion topic, you seem to be of the opinion that people ought to do things that benefit society. Why?
I'm guessing your answer will be something like 'Because people benefit from society, so when they benefit society they benefit themselves'.
Nope, it's just something I personally approve of. I don't really know whether they really ought to, I just think that I ought to convince them they ought to, because I'd like it if they believed that. I suppose I could justify a position such as the one you've suggested to me on the basis of social contract theory, but considering how bad governments can be at keeping their side of the bargain, I won't try.

(Of course, I'm not debating primarily to convince anyone of anything anyway. I'm mainly doing it for fun and to show everyone else what very clever arguments I'm able to come up with; as such, the exact position each of us takes is more or less irrelevant. If you asked me to argue against abortion, I'd be just as comfortable doing that.)

[ Monday, March 28, 2005 14:50: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Intro Pictures in Blades of Avernum Editor
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 14:16 Profile Homepage #4
10 or 20 MB should probably do it.

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Intro Pictures in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 14:16 Profile Homepage #4
10 or 20 MB should probably do it.

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Riddles in General
Thuryl
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 13:37 Profile Homepage #73
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When young, I am sweet in the sun.
When middle-aged, I make you gay.
When old, I am valued more than ever.
A hat with flowers in it?

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End Credits Question in The Exile Trilogy
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 13:26 Profile Homepage #1
Crowds are made of townspeople. :P

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Intro Pictures in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 13:23 Profile Homepage #2
Click on the ResEdit application, select Get Info (Command-I) and increase its memory allocation by a few megabytes or so.

EDIT: Er, well, damn. What TM said.

[ Monday, March 28, 2005 13:23: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Intro Pictures in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 13:23 Profile Homepage #2
Click on the ResEdit application, select Get Info (Command-I) and increase its memory allocation by a few megabytes or so.

EDIT: Er, well, damn. What TM said.

[ Monday, March 28, 2005 13:23: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Help - Basshikava in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 13:20 Profile Homepage #25
Your hit rate was only 5%? My archers were still hitting 95% of the time even after Dread Curse. They each had about 20 levels in Thrown Missiles and Sharpshooter -- which isn't hard to achieve; I was able to find all those points for them even after giving them 17 levels of priest spells.

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Beta Call for The Darkness in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 13:14 Profile Homepage #40
I suppose if all else fails you can just reward_give a kit to the first available character. It's non-optimal, but probably better than losing the item completely.

Hmm. Actually, if char_give_item works but doesn't stack, then if you make the item use a charge, you only have to give one item to him, creating only one extra stack. This still looks weird, but it'd work fine and wouldn't be disastrously so unless the player misused the battle medicine kits an awful lot.

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Do you think there is a Hell? in General
Thuryl
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 written Monday, March 28 2005 13:01 Profile Homepage #16
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Originally written by spy.there:

Hell... is exactly like now - only much, much badder ...
I'm picturing Bruce Campbell saying that.

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